Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sending forth thunders or fulminations; thundering; striking terror.
Wiktionary
- adj. Thundering; striking terror.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Thundering; striking terror.
Etymologies
- Compare French fulminatoire. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Corinthian fluted pillars formed its general decoration, and enshrined the four fulminatory inscriptions.”
“The liberal newspapers published fulminatory articles; flaming protests were made in the clubs against the surreptitious propaganda of Rome.”
“Still less is a Cote Gauche wanting: extreme Left; sitting on the topmost benches, as if aloft on its speculatory Height or Mountain, which will become a practical fulminatory Height, and make the name of”
“I have inserted only the fulminatory clause of this inscription, as being that part of it against which”
“` mispronounces 'a word, conservative folk feel the standards of civilization threatened and do the only thing a chap or chapess can do in the circumstances: write a fulminatory letter to The Times.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fulminatory’.
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terrific
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Resounding Words
great timbre
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
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Words of the Day
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syncretic
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Specific
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Lee's List
Words I like, and should try to use more often.
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Blood Matters?
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mtc
"Fulminatory" includes the word "minatory, and the meanings relate; i.e, sending forth thunders is a warning, all of which might lead you to believe the two words have the same etymology, but in fact they do not. Still, I find the similarities helpful in remembering their meanings. Oct 31, 2012